Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 30

Indeed, his motion was as light as if he were flying through the air, and his hoofs seemed hardly to leave their print in the grassy soil over which he trod.

Who acts: motion, bull, hoofs · What happens: be, fly, seem, leave, tread, motion · To what, where: air, print, grassy soil

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motion, bull, hoofs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 motion	nmod:poss
4	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 light	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
7	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 flying	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 flying	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flying	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flying	aux
12	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 light	advcl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hoofs	nmod:poss
19	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 light	conj
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	20 seemed	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 leave	mark
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 print	nmod:poss
25	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leave	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 soil	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 soil	det
28	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soil	amod
29	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leave	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 trod	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 trod	nsubj
33	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 soil	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bull's motion			indeed, light property	tree rules
2	fly	past · progressive	bull		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
3	seem	past	bull's hoofs			hardly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	leave	to-infinitive	bull's hoofs not said here	hoofs's print	the grassy soil		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent print=Theme in soil=Location
5	tread	past	bull		the grassy soil		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory
6	motion		bull				nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	print		hoofs = hoof				nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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